Beer Market is Stabilizing

In Russia beer sales reached their peak in 2007, when they amounted 11.6 billion rubles. The rapid growth of 2005-2007 was caused by the interruption in strong alcoholic beverage deliveries to the retailing, which resulted from the adoption of the Unified State Automated Information System by the Russian distilleries. However, in 2008 the market volume grew down to 11.4 billion liters. In 2009 the decrease in the beer market continued.

At present the beer market is stabilizing, although the declining tendency is expected to continue in 2010. According to BusinesStat estimates, the volume of beer sales will equal 10.8 billion liters in 2010.